The Fish Strikes Back
An Exercise in Etymological Re-enactment and Aquatic Karma The study of language is eternally replete…
Proto-Turkic
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From Ice Cream to the Messiah
The conversation recently turned, as civilized discourses so often do on a sultry afternoon, to…
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Under the Sky of Tengri
In one of the halls of the A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts in Almaty,…
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Between Myth and Form
Today, dear reader, we turn our attention to sculpture. You know how passionately I adore…
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What Does the Torsyq Keep?
In the Museum of Almaty, we stumbled upon an artifact I had never heard of…
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Birch in the Steppe
When I first laid eyes on this artifact in the Central Museum of Kazakhstan, I…
